Elijah Lanier-Newton was 14 years old when he was reported missing from Savannah, Georgia, after last being seen on October 31, 2025. Public notices identified him as a missing teenage boy and placed his last known location near the I-95 and Highway 204 interchange, close to a Shell gas station. Savannah Police asked for the public’s help in finding him, and early reporting described him as 5 feet 4 inches tall and about 100 pounds, with brown eyes and black hair. The National Center for Missing & Exploited Children was also reported to have issued a missing child poster for Elijah, assigning his disappearance case number 2066724.
The details made public about Elijah’s disappearance were limited. Online reports did not describe the circumstances that led up to the moment he was last seen, and they did not provide confirmed information about who he may have been with, where he may have been headed, or what he was wearing. What was clear from the available public information was that a 14-year-old child had disappeared from a heavily traveled area near an interstate exit, and authorities treated the situation as urgent enough to ask anyone who saw him to call 911. Missing child alerts emphasized that even small details could matter, encouraging people with any information about Elijah’s whereabouts to contact authorities.
In the weeks after Halloween, Elijah’s name circulated through missing-child notices and local media coverage. The case was shared as a public appeal, with Savannah Police and community-facing outlets repeating the key identifying details: his age, his Savannah last-seen location, and his physical description. Because so little was publicly released, the story carried a painful uncertainty. There were no widely reported explanations for why he vanished, no public timeline beyond the Halloween last-seen date, and no detailed account of the search efforts, but the repeated appeals reflected the same central concern: Elijah was a child missing from his community, and his safe return depended in part on someone recognizing him or coming forward with information.
Elijah Lanier-Newton was later found safe, and the case is no longer an active missing-person case. Savannah Police confirmed that he had been located safely, though no further details were released about where he was found or the circumstances of his recovery. Public reporting stated that he had been missing for more than four months before police announced that he was safe. In overview, Elijah’s case began with a 14-year-old boy last seen on Halloween near the I-95 and Highway 204 interchange in Savannah, Georgia; it moved into a public search supported by police notices, missing-child alerts, and local reporting; and it ended with the most hoped-for outcome, confirmation that Elijah had been found alive.
Last Seen: Oct 31, 2025
